OpenSC: `sc_compacttlv_find_tag` can return out-of-bounds pointers (OpenSC OpenSC)

CVE-2025-66038
LOW 3.9

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.29 % · percentile 22 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

OpenSC is an open source smart card tools and middleware. Prior to version 0.27.0, sc_compacttlv_find_tag searches a compact-TLV buffer for a given tag. In compact-TLV, a single byte encodes the tag (high nibble) and value length (low nibble). With a 1-byte buffer {0x0A}, the encoded element claims tag=0 and length=10 but no value bytes follow. Calling sc_compacttlv_find_tag with search tag 0x00 returns a pointer equal to buf+1 and outlen=10 without verifying that the claimed value length fits within the remaining buffer. In cases where the sc_compacttlv_find_tag is provided untrusted data (such as being read from cards/files), attackers may be able to influence it to return out-of-bounds pointers leading to downstream memory corruption when subsequent code tries to dereference the pointer. This issue has been patched in version 0.27.0.

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.9CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.9CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.8CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
OpenSC · OpenSCaffected < 0.27.0

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD